Improved table-stand for food



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEtcE.

BENJAMIN F. PORTER, OF MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

IMPROVED TABLE-STAND FOR FooD.

Specification forming par'tof Letters Patent No. 57,964, dated September 11, 1866.

. To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. PORTER, of Manchester, in the county ot' Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and Improved Table-Stand for Articles of Food and I do hereby declare that the following' is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this speeilication.

The present invention relates to a novel and useful stand-for the reception of pies, meats, and other articles ot' foodheretofore invented by me in connection with Humphrey M. Glines, and patented on the 2d day ot' January, A. D. 1866; and it consists in so hanging the casing for the reception of the articles intended to be placed and kept in it upon a suitable stand or frame that it can be re-l volved in a horizontal plane, and also in the use of a sliding door to the said casing in lieu of a swinging door, described in the schedule annexed to the Letters Patent referred to.

In accompanying plate of drawings my improvements are illustrated, Figure l being a side elevation of the table-stand made according thereto; Fig. 2, a horizontal section taken in the plane of the line a: ai, Fig. 1.

Similar letters ot' reference indicate like parts.

A A in the drawings represent the frame of the casing, consisting ot' two circular disks or end plates, B B, secured together by a series of vertical rods, O C, extending around one-half, or nearly so, ot' their peri pheries, over which rods from one head-plate to the other a sheet of wire gauze or netting, D, is placed, bent around into the form of a semicircle. The remaining and open portion between the two edges aa of such wirelletting D is closed by a semicircular-shaped wire-nettin g or gauze door, E, inserted in suitable grooves or ways b b of each of the casing-heads B, in which grooves the said door slides around and about the stationary portion D ot' the gauze covering above referred to, when desired to open or close the said casing.

Fis a series of parallel horizontal shelves secured within the frame-Casin g A, upon which the articles of food to be kept in it are to be placed.

G isa pin or pivot secured to the center of each end plate ofthe casing, and, respectively, turning in the base-plate H of the tablestand, and horizontal crossbar I, supported at each end by upright posts or rods J Jof the standbase H, the said casing turning or revolving in a horizontal plane by the said center pins Gr.

K is a handle secured to the upper side of the cross-bar I, by which handle the stand can be readily carried or moved about from place to place.

L is a catch hung to lower end plate of cas ing, which, when interlocked with one of the side posts J, holds the casing in place.

By arranging the food-casing of the stand so as to revolve, it is obvious a very convenient stand for use is provided; and with a sliding door less room or space is required for opening and closing it than in such stands having a swinging door-a quite important advantage.

The stand-Casin g, in lieu of bein g made round or cylindrical, may be made of other and-various shape, such as square or polygonal, Ste., and either used with or without a Wire-gauze covering, as may be deemed most desirable.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. 'The revolving table-stand, consisting of the end plates B B, rods O O, gauze-netting d, shelves F, pin Gr, base H, cross-bar I, posts J, and catch L, constructed and arranged in the manner and for the purpose herein specified.

2. In combination with the above, the slidin g door E, arranged and operating as herein described.

BENJAMIN F. PORTER.

Witnesses:

ANDREW J. TEBBETTs, BEACKETT B. WEEKS 

